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Baylor star lineman nearly picked the Longhorns

ARLINGTON, TX - JANUARY 01: Bryce Petty #14 of the Baylor Bears and Spencer Drango #58 of the Baylor Bears celebrate after a touchdown against the Michigan State Spartans during the second half of the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic at AT&T Stadium on January 1, 2015 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

WACO — Remember when the area’s best football players who grew up idolizing the Texas Longhorns actually signed with the home team?

With the shift in power we’ve witnessed in the Big 12 since Colt McCoy and Jordan Shipley left campus, we’re seeing some of the best the ATX has to offer finding their success elsewhere.

After spending Thanksgiving weekend in the Metroplex and Tyler, I made the swing through Waco on Monday afternoon to hear what the Baylor Bears have cooked up for Saturday’s regular-season finale against the Bevos. I had a great with conversation with All-America offensive tackle Spencer Drango, who made the Statesman’s All-Centex first team while starring for Cedar Park.

Drango grew up loving the Horns and would have been a great fit up front. But he made the decision to play in Waco.

“Once I separated the fan and the player in me, it became pretty easy,” Drango said. “The fan wanted me, growing up a Texas fan, to go there. But stepping back and looking at it from the player’s perspective, it made it clear that Baylor was the right choice.”

His career achievements would agree with that assessment — 33 career starts, a slew of awards and enough skins on the wall to be projected to go in the first three rounds of the NFL draft. Well done, young Timberwolf, well done.

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